INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13909, 21 May 1909, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL.

I'er Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 2). The Governor, by v iptam dhannoii, .a.JJ.C., arnved i.urn Tokaanu yesterday. MJtxeeli -cy lias a very lull programme of va) ...us local functions during tuo week. I'ALMERSTON N., May D. The Mayor iia,s given i.vticv ol his intention 10 rescind the r.-roh.uon abolishing day labour in favour of iontract on jnunicipal works iu,..n ./as carried the other day by one v.. te. i.oiincillor Palmer, who v. as from the meeting lias returned to i alliierstou and his vote mil be for oav laooiir. and \wiu tue i.r's catt.ng vote will carry it. .Regarding the statement as to l,::dy Plunket going home some time before Lord Plunkett, the "M.ana.watu Times" is authoritatively informed that though Her -Excellency will precede Lord Plunket to England,, it will not be before .February next.

MASTERTON, May 20

Mr Lamb, proprietor of the Tararua vineyards, is advised by a high legal authority that tlm carrying of 110iicense m Mastcrton will not affect his business in the manufacture and sale of wine.

WELLINGTON, May 20

The Minister of Public Works in the course of a statement on the subject- of railwivy construction, said that the Government had no intention of curtailing tho expenditure in that direction. We want to get railways and roads to open up the country which is lying idle he said. Everyone of the new railways in the North Island is going to open up an enormous extent of country for settlement. The final remittance of £2OO has been receiver! by the Town Clerk from the -Union Steam Ship Company towards tho fund for the relief of tho sufferers by the wreck of the Penguin. This makes the amount contributed to the fund by the coml>any £SOO. it is understood that the secretary will make a call upon the Government for its promised subsidy of £IOOO. DUNK DIN. May 20. A meeting of the High School Board of Governors provisionally selected the design of E. Anscoinbe out of '2l. submitted for a girls' high school. The designer was asked to prepare specifications for the approval of the Board of entire building as modified by the Board and Education Department; also specifications for the work now proposed to cost £9500, and when such specifications are approved, alternative tenders are to be called, and until it is shown that the work can be done within the estimate of the designer the. Board does not- undertake to accept anv offer.

Alexander Gray, licensee of the Prince of "Wales Hotel, was convicted of selling to a prohibited person, and fined £'o and costs.

XVERCA.KGILL, May '2O.

After considerable delay in coming to a. decision in regard to the Invereargill tramways, the rights oi which are held by Sir Joseph Ward, the matter was brought to a head by a- letter from Sir J. G. Ward read at the Town Council meeting to-night. He states that public opinion seeming to be strongly in favour of municipal tramways. lie and those associated with him in the enterprise had decided to relinquish their rights if the expenses collected therewith, amounting to £ISOO w^ r o refunded. The Council referred the matter to a special committee.